N.Y. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s indictment of Bank of America and its former CEO, Ken Lewis, could have political repercussions in Florida. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink was the Florida president of Bank of America, and Lewis was her mentor.

Of Sink, he said: “She’s bright. She’s a good communicator. She’s a winner. She’s driven to do all she can to succeed.”

Cuomo has charged BofA and Lewis with fraud.

Does this have anything whatsoever to do with Sink? No. She left BofA in 2000, long before the banks began laying land mines under the economy.

But this doesn’t matter. She will be linked to Lewis because there is nothing fair about politics.

This also reinforces Sink’s dilemma. Her selling point in this race is that she is a no-nonsense businesswoman, not a politician. But selling that is problematic when her business was running Bank of America’s Florida operation.

It doesn’t help that she has an awful campaign staff, and her Republican foe, Bill McCollum, has a very good one.

People aren’t paying attention to this race now. But you can see how the chess pieces are being deployed on the board for when they do. And it’s not looking good at all for Sink.

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This was obviously written before Sink called for McCollum to investigate BoA’s activities in Florida, a brilliant move innoculating herself from the association and throwing the onus back on McCollum for not protecting Floridians.